St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-06

SieS1tiou 1IO1u MlSSOuT1 10 luV1Lo CQ
PRESIDENT to visit St. Louis in the beginnin
OF october next called upon Mr.. Clevelan
Y at the White House. The delegates were re
n celVed by the President in the library, an
mayor Francis, of St. Louis, presented tn
invitation. The President accepted the in
Vltatlon and said the date could be arrange
afterward. The mayor enjoined the Presi
dent not to forget to take Mrs. Cleveland an,
the PRESIDENT said ''She will not let me for
get her" The Cabinet members and thei
families are included in the invitation.
Nearly all the works in the Connellsvill,
coke region are in operation. A conferenc,
was held in Pittsburg between coke opera
tors and Knights of Labor miners to arrange
a sliding scale of wages. The miners sub
united scale fixing the rate for mining al
81 per 100 bushels and coke drawing at sixty
cents per 100 bushels, with 81 50 as the basis
OF the selling price of coke. These figures
are the same as were paid previous to the
strike when coke was selling at s., so that il
the selling price is reduced to 81 50 the same
wages will be paid as when the strike COM
menced. If, however, the selling price of
coke is reduced to 81 IS, then the cokers
would be entitled to an advance in wages ac-
cordlng to their sliding scale as presented
which provides that they shall get an ad-
vance for each rise in the selling price of
coke
The $50 employees of the Eclipse Wooden
Mills at Louisville have struck for an in
crease of ten per cent. in wages.
The Gloucester fishing schooner Annie
| w. Hodgson, Captain Morrison, has been
taken into Shelburne, Nova Scotia. bv
captain knowlton, of the Dominion cruiser
Advance. Captain Morrison makes the
following statement: During the fog the
Hodgson lost dory containing two men.
After beating around in vain search for the
missing dory, she at length made for
ehelburne harbor about daylight and
boat was sent ashore to make in
quiries about the missing men. Just as the
Hodgson was getting under way she was
boarded by the boats crew from the Ad-
vance, and Captain Knowlton, who took
charge of her and brought her into the har-
Dor, where she is now anchored. The charge
made against her is violation of the Gus
toms laws, in not reporting at the custom
house,
The seines and boats, with the crews of the
American schooners Colonel J. H. Frame
and ArgOnaut, have been seized bv the Do
mlnlon cutter Critic off East point, Prince
Edwards island. 1t appears that the boats
and selnes were close in shore. Only one
man was left on the vessels, and he cleared |
them off and escaped the cutter but it was
thought they would be seized before they
could get home
The Secretary Of the Interior has written
to the Attorney General recommending that
the suits now pending against prominent
cattle companies in New Mexico for erecting
and maintaining unlawful fences on the pub
lie domain be discontinued upon payment
by defendants of all costs incident thereto.
This request is made upon the assurance that
the fences complained against have been re-
moved.
The Treasury Department decides that bar
iron commercially known as Swedish bar
iron, and inyoiced as Swedish charcoal
ron,' is duitable at the rate of s22 per ton
under the provisions of paragraph 14s for
ron bars, blooms, billets. in the manufacture
II which charcoal is used as fuel. 1t was
shown IN the case that, while charcoal was
lsed as fuel in making blooms ard ingots
rom the ore, gas and not charcoal was used
n converting the blooms and ingots into
oars. .....
William J. Hammond & Sons, iron manu- {
acturers of Pittsburg, whose mill was de-
troyed by fire about ten days ago, have ,
allied a meeting of their creditors Their :
Embarrassment is supposed to have been :
aused by the fire, their loss being nearly >
100000, while the insurance was less than 7
alf that amount. ,
Bowen q Signor, proprietors of the Sara s
ac Iron Company's works, at Saranac, N.
=, have made an assignment. The liabili- I
es are estimated at s25O,0OO; the assets at
bout $4,000. Shepherd P Bowen, of the
rm, has made an individual assignment.
he firm operated rolling mill, grst MILL
nd general store, and it is said, have =
lortgaged the property for s115,OOO. :
Mrs. Joseph Bennett, wealthy lady of "
'ichita, Kas., was stabbed, and, it is be- 81
eyed, mortally wounded, by her step d
lughter, Mary Bennett. Mary who is Ben
,tt's daughter by his first wife, went TO k
'ichita from Hot Springs, Ark, and was e,
fused admission to her stepmother's house.
tterward, accompanied by young man, g
e girl drove to the house, and. upon Mrs ~
snnett coming to the door, drew knife y,
ID stabbed her twenty times in the breast, 10
ce and arms. y.
A new order in Council prohibits the i'm al
rtation Of neat cattle from the United W
ates into Manitoba the Northwest and pc
itish Columbia, except for breeding pur- Sc
ses or in transit from one point to another Gu
the United States. ch
Monsignor Perisco, the special representa- III
e Of the Vatican in Ireland has sent to the "a -
pc report of his investigations in that Ill
lntry. He will return to Rome at the
ginning Of August kl
Investigation shows that while in Wash oo 80
ton Oscar J. Harvey, the defaulting Ia
asury official, acted as attorney for Mrs. hi,
onson. and secured for her a pension
ounting to over 81, 700. The draft for the -. :.
'ney was made out at the sub-treasury in - -
iladelphia, and signed by Pension Agent r.
w. Davis. Commissioner of Pensions ~ ~.
.ck, of Washington, was led to believe III
It the pension was secured by fraudulent 20.
ans, and he sent Special Officer Birtseye -
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